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On one-sided interval edge colorings of biregular bipartite graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2012-05-02 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

A proper edge tt-coloring of a graph GG is a coloring of edges of GG with colors 1,2,...,t1,2,...,t such that all colors are used, and no two adjacent edges receive the same color. The set of colors of edges incident with a vertex xx is called a spectrum of xx. An arbitrary nonempty subset of consecutive integers is called an interval. We say that a proper edge tt-coloring of a graph GG is interval in the vertex xx if the spectrum of xx is an interval. We say that a proper edge tt-coloring φ\varphi of a graph GG is interval on a subset R0R_0 of vertices of GG, if for an arbitrary xR0x\in R_0, φ\varphi is interval in xx. We say that a subset RR of vertices of GG has an ii-property if there is a proper edge tt-coloring of GG which is interval on RR. If GG is a graph, and a subset RR of its vertices has an ii-property, then the minimum value of tt for which there is a proper edge tt-coloring of GG interval on RR is denoted by wR(G)w_R(G). In this paper, for some bipartite graphs, we estimate the value of this parameter in that cases when RR coincides with the set of all vertices of one part of the graph.

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@article{arxiv.1205.0130,
  title  = {On one-sided interval edge colorings of biregular bipartite graphs},
  author = {R. R. Kamalian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0130},
  year   = {2012}
}

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